I’m glad to share that I’ve been granted a new US patent, US 12,650,940 B2, “Device Virtualization Techniques”, alongside co-inventors Ryan Holmqvist, Kapil Karkra, Orden Smith, Nicholas Adams, and...

I built a from-scratch GPT-2 inference engine for educational purposes — no frameworks, no shortcuts. Rust handles the tensor math (via PyO3), Python handles everything else: tokenizer, transforme...

In a previous post I argued that machine-readable specifications are the foundation for AI-augmented hardware design. This post digs into a specific tool for that job: TLA+ and its procedural fron...

Every hardware team has lived this: a 400-page PDF spec says one thing, the RTL says another, and the testbench assumes a third. The bug that falls out is nobody’s fault and everybody’s problem. ...

Architectural decisions for a high-performance I/O-memory fabric should be grounded in data, not gut feel. It sounds obvious, but in practice the pressure to “just pick something reasonable” is re...

Welcome to schmole.com — a space for engineering notes, deep dives, and tools from my work in silicon hardware architecture. Posts here will cover fabric architecture trade-offs, formal specificat...